Committees
Professional Practices Committee
Description:
The Professional Practices Committee responds to specific concerns of the membership in relation to areas such as job placement and recruitment, tenure and promotion procedures, scholarly standards and ethics, studio health and safety, and artists' practices.
Recent Projects
The Professional Practices Committee's revised version of Standards for Retention and Tenure of Visual Arts Faculty was approved by the CAA Board in October 2004 and posted to the CAA web site at that time. Ongoing Projects include, review of several of the CAA Guidelines: Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in Computer-Based Media in Fine Art; M.F.A. Standards; Standards for the B.A. and B.F.A. degrees in Studio Art. In addition the Committee continues to discuss credentialing in the Visual arts, especially the MFA and PhD degrees and will sponsor a 2.5 hour session during Boston Conference entitled, The MFA and PhD: Torque in the Workplace. The Committee sponsored a 1.5 Session in Atlanta entitled, Preparing Students to be Artists: What are we doing and is it sufficient?, and continues to review CAA's guidelines on Professional Practices for Artists.
Committee Members:
Maxine Payne, CHAIR, Hendrix College (2009)
Sandra Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College (2010)
John Klein, University of Missouri (2011)
Linda Downs (ex-officio), Executive Director, College Art Association
Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton (2011)
Jean Miller, College of Fine Arts and Communication Towson University (2011)
Leo Morrissey, Winston-Salem State University (2009)
Maxine Payne, Hendrix College (2009)
Kate Wagle, University of Oregon (2010)
Gina Werfel, University of California, Davis (2011)
Charles Wright, Western Illinois University (2011)